I would like some chivalry, please, dude There has recently been some debate
on the place chivalry has in the modern era — prompted by the massive
success of Downton Abbey, which shows a forgotten world of gentlemen
rising as a lady enters the room, using quadrille gloves when engaged in
quadrilling, and making only the faintest legal protest over women gaining
the vote in 1918.

Having now observed its full glory on television, modern opinion seems to be
split on the desirability of now staging a full chivalric revival. The main
argument against it is that it presupposes weakness in